Movements In The Dark

Inwood Town,

Located near the lush green Star Forest, the town was surrounded with 50m high and 8m thick walls and a huge gate. At either side of the gate stood guards .There were people going in and out of the town, but the majority of the people going In the town were injured.

Seeing this the patrolling soldiers couldn't help but mutter themselves,

"It seems the tide this time would be very dangerous".

"Hehe.. dangerous it seems this will be the end of the town"

"But didn't the lord ask for reinforcement from the city to help defend the tide."

"Reinforcements.. hmph! till they come there would be no one remaining for their help."

Hearing this the expression of the nearby soldiers changed.

Someone couldn't help but ask,

"What the hell do you mean?!"

"Sigh.... from the injuries of the mercenaries it seems there are a lot of them coming out from their nests. "

"You are right, it seems the tide will be coming soon... maybe it will probably come tonight."

"There should be an anouncment soon as townsmen are getting worried."

As they were talking, a meeting was going on in the Mayor's residence between a mature woman wearing a veil and a middle aged man,

"The scouts send to keep an eye on the tide have been mostly reported dead and the remaining who managed top get the information reports that the number would be almost double to the previous tide."

The middle aged man hesitated and continued,

"Also the reinforcements requested from the city force have s-stopped responding after yesterday night."

Hearing this the face of the women turned cold and killing intent flashed through her eyes.

"Someone is manipulating all the things behind the back. Even this tide is very unusual... could the forces of Bovate Kingdom finally making a move."

"But my lord aren't they afraid of the retaliation of Star Sword Sect and Azure Lotus Sect? "

"Hmph!, it seems they are getting the support from the sect from our own to handle the both sects. Wasn't the top sects requested to go frontlines to stablize the so-called disadvantage."

Hearing this the face of middle-aged man turned pale.

"My lord what should we do now, the townsmen are getting worried. "

Taking a deep breath the mature woman spoke expressionlessly,

" Captain Hui pass down the order for a complete lockdown and tell the town guards to get ready for the tide, also send the elites who are good at concealment to scout ahead and start laying out the traps design for wars all around the walls."

"Yes my lord."

After getting the orders Gu Hui hurriedly excused himself leaving the Mayor alone.

The Mayor's name was Bai Li. She was the person appoint the city lord to maintain the town but the city lord didn't knew that her other identity was a intelligent agent affiliated with Star Sword Sect's servants quarters.

Her job was to take note of the City lord's every action because the city was a very important point for the Kingdom as it was the closest city to the outer parts of the Star Forest. It was also the city which secured a lot of resources through the beast tide and also served as a safe point for merchants travelling through the two kingdoms. It also attracts a lot of attention from the big families from the Blue Sky Kingdom itself. There were three more safe points under the city which were converted into towns as there were already many people living. The average people in the town varied from 20,000-63,000. Bai Li have been having a smooth time but recently there have been many undercurrents which had made her uncomfortable. In addition, she wasn't able to make a breakthrough due her strange bloodline which always have been mystery to her for decades. She had even asked Elders of Sect about it but even they weren't able to solve it. She had been thinking about forcefully breaking due to recent circumstances but she was still hesitating because even a small mishap may lead to being a cripple or worst case death.

"Sigh.."

Sighing she looked at the shadow which was swiftly approached her from behind. Bai Li remain calmed and gave a side glance to the shadow which morphed into a human. 

Finally she spoke expressionlessly,

"What are the results?"

The morphed being bowed and replied,

"Two of the top sects are manipulating everything from behind the scenes. "

"Which ones?"

Hearing this the vague human figure started to hesitate but after feeling the chilling air it relented,

"Sunset Sect, Sky Sword Sect and a-also t-the Old Demonic Sect are in cahoots for this."

As soon as the words were spoken a powerful aura descended upon the human figure. Taking the full brunt of the aura the human figure morphed into a 5'10 foot human in black clothing who knelled on both the knees

"How come you guys only report me now when the two huge forces are moving against us and not only that but even a fu*king Old Demonic Sect is moving against us."

"Boss everyone who were stationed near the demonic sect are captured or seriously injured. T-the report arrived just 20 min before. "

"What the hell."

Hearing this Bai Li couldn't maintain herself. The people she stationed near the demonic sect were mostly captured. She couldn't help but worry about her subordinates as they have been together for decades.

'Calm down and think Bai Li, how were they able to find everyone out.... c-could it b-be...'

"A Traitor?!!"

"N-No b-boss, there w-wasn't a t-traitor"

Hearing these words Bai Li finally calmed herself and took back the aura that was pressing on her subordinate.

Feeling the aura no more, the color of the black-clothed man face finally return and he could finally breathe some air.

"Boss i-it was t-that thing from the past when our sect destroyed the Devil Gu Sect. "

Hearing a chill ran through her spine,

'How is this possible, how this possible weren't those devils killed back then!!. Damnit if this is real then this situation is very bad. I need to tell Elder Song about this immediately or the consequences would be unimaginable.'

.....

Nearly 100 years ago,

The two sect which rose to prominence by destroying Devil Gu Sect. The wretches who used insects called 'Gu' to control other people. They had already controlled many important officials and also many higher ups of the top families and also top sects. No one knew about it until they started a massacre which completely overturned the kingdom in a few days. Even the royal family faced a Coup d'etat which was finally stabilized after the intervention of an old monster of the Royal Family. After the chaos resided, the Old Monster in his rage ruthlessly killed everyone who were controlled, not only that, he also took this opportunity to kill everyone who had offended the Royal Family, but this only provided a temporary relief for few days . The demon cultivators took this opportunity to take a portion of land for themselves, killing everyone from mortals to cultivators, dying the land with blood. Even though the Royal King issued an edict for every Sect to kill the Demonic Cultivators, it still took 2 weeks for it, which almost escalated the situation. The Devil Gu Sect was very steady and had already planned every move of the Royal Family.

Unfortunately, their only wrong choice was to invade the eastern region of the kingdom which was presided by Star Sword Sect and Azure Lotus Sect. They were really unlucky as according to everyone both these sects were medium-level sects but who knew that these sects were powerhouses acting as pigs in wolf clothing. Being attacked by the vanguard forces of Devil Gu Sect they only suffered about 300 deaths including an outer sect elder due to a Spirit Soul Realm Cultivator Self-Destructing himself but the Sect Master's of both the sects were still infuriated by facing an invasion even though they had been low-key for years.

They immediately called an Elder Meeting and formed an alliance to eradicate Devil Gu Sect. The next day they went to the Headquarters of the Devil Gu Sect, which apparently no one knew at that time.

They completely eradicated the sect without suffering any casualties. That was also the moment when everyone in the Kingdom knew about the two sects. The chaos which almost turned upside down was easily quelled by just two sects.

This was also a huge slap for all the major sects including the Royal Family because after this situation many citizens couldn't put a lot of trust in them and when they heard that Star Sword Sect and Azure Lotus Sect had eradicated Devil Gu Sect, the place for these two sects rose at the top in their hearts compared to the Royal Family.

Due to this there have always been a friction between them.

Many top forces including the Royal King had tried to play many tricks from the back but were all futile. This also lead to the one of major forces being destroyed due the Chief Discple of the Force trying to force himself on a core disciple of Azure Lotus Sect.

From then on all the forces went into dormant stage but they still tried to pull strings from the dark but it only backfired them.